A brand new consulting agency has launched in Australia, with Aster Advisory spun out of Pitcher Companions to supply impartial inside audit, threat administration, probity, and procurement advisory companies.
Based mostly out of Melbourne, Aster Advisory will proceed to work in shut collaboration with Pitcher Companions, the place the specialist unit started life 20 years in the past, however can now function independently free from any potential conflicts of curiosity.
The administration consultancy is led by skilled government director trio Graham Noriskin, Michal Jozwik and Matthew Wilson, who all spent upwards of seventeen years at Pitcher Companions, and already has a group of greater than two dozen professionals in place.
“In gentle of issues concerning independence dealing with advisory companies, along with Pitcher Companions, we requested: is there a greater strategy to assist our purchasers?,” the agency outlines. “The reply was clear. We wanted to adapt to fulfill the rising demand for delivering specialised, impartial advisory companies targeted on upholding integrity and strengthening our relationship with purchasers.”
With a concentrate on the general public, not-for-profit, schooling, healthcare, and transport sectors, Aster will specialise within the core areas of outsourced and co-sourced inside audit, threat administration, procurement advisory, probity, cybersecurity & know-how threat, and alliance contract companies, backed externally by a direct line to Pitcher Companions’ monetary, tax and accounting experience.
“We consider there’s a first-mover benefit from taking this step proactively, with a transparent understanding of how we will tackle the wants of our purchasers”, Jozwik stated. “We’re one of many few consulting corporations in Australia providing our companies which isn’t half of a bigger accountancy. This offers us an unparalleled degree of independence from perceived or potential conflicts arising from different companies.”
Graham Noriskin, Michal Jozwik and Matthew Wilson
Formally lively because the center of final yr, Aster Advisory says it efficiently transitioned its complete group and greater than 80 purchasers within the 5 months previous to its current ‘public’ launch, and has acquired ‘overwhelmingly constructive’ suggestions on the transfer.
The agency has listed a senior group of round 20 on its web site, and operates out of a brand new tackle at Degree 9, 607 Bourke Avenue, a brief hop from Pitcher Companions’ Collins Avenue base subsequent to Southern Cross station.
Collectively, its trio of government administrators – all previously leaders of Pitcher Companions’ threat & procurement advisory follow (RAPA) and companions since at the very least 2017 – deliver greater than eight many years of mixed trade expertise in each Australia and overseas, together with earlier time spent on the Large 4. A supporting quartet of 4 shopper administrators provides additional many years of expertise.
Aster Advisory traces its identify to a goddess in Greek mythology, who, in a narrative which the consultancy stated resonated with its goal, “seemed to the celebs for steering, knowledge, and love. One evening, when the celebs have been absent, Asteria wept. As her tears touched the bottom, they remodeled into lovely aster flowers, embodying a way of renewal, resilience, and new beginnings.”
